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This puzzle first appears in print in Anita Richterman's " Problem Line " column in Newsday on April 29, 1975.

One " M. Z.

" from Wantagh states that the problem was asked on a TV quiz program.

Richterman states that she asked a learned professor of English for help when she first received the inquiry, and he did not respond for over a month.